How to get the byte size of resultset in an SQL query?

Question

Is it possible to get the size in bytes of the results of an sql query in MySQL?

For example:

select * from sometable;

ths returns 10000 rows. I don't want the rows but the size of the resultset in bytes. Is it possible?

Answer 1

select sum(row_size) 
from (
  select 
    char_length(column1)+
    char_length(column2)+
    char_length(column3)+
    char_length(column4) ... <-- repeat for all columns
  as row_size 
  from your_table
) as tbl1;

char_length for enum, set might not accurate, please take note

Answer 2

To build on Angelin's solution, if your data contains nulls, you'll want to add IFNULL to each column:

select sum(
    ifnull(char_length(column1), 0) +
    ifnull(char_length(column2), 0) +
    ifnull(char_length(column3), 0) +
    ifnull(char_length(column4), 0) ... <-- repeat for all columns
)
from your_table

Answer 3

simplify :

select sum(char_length(column1)+
    char_length(column2)+
    char_length(column3)+
    char_length(column4) ... )<-- repeat for all columns
   from your_table

You need to add IFNULL() to each column as @futilerebel has mentioned

Answer 4

CHAR_LENGTH() gets number of characters if unicode will be more bytes - use LENGTH() for number of bytes:https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_length